Extraction of natural gas from shale formations using the process of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) requires the use of thousands of cubic meters of fluid. Hydraulic fracturing fluids are pumped under pressure into shale formations, fracturing the shale and releasing pockets of trapped gases. When the pressure in a natural gas...
Bacteria found in clarified ovine rumen fluid are capable of degradation of high-energy explosives such as RDX (Hexahydro-1,3,-trinitro‐1,3,5‐triazine) and HMX (Octahydro‐1,3,5,7‐tetranitro‐1,3,5,7-tetrazocine).
This study documented the historical perspective of lake fisheries in Kashmir, India, estimated the trends in fish production using the Kane’s cross impact analysis and the stakeholders’ willingness to pay for the restoration of Schizothorax fishery in the lakes of Kashmir. The cross impacts of introduction of carps in the...
This study documented the historical perspective of lake fisheries in Kashmir, India, estimated the trends in fish production using the Kane’s cross impact analysis and the stakeholders’ willingness to pay (WTP) for the restoration of Schizothorax fishery in the lakes of Kashmir. The cross impacts of introduction of carps in...
Perhaps the most undervalued, yet critically important ecosystem services are related to socio-cultural values tied to the non-material benefits that arise from human-ecosystem relationships, such as bequest. Bequest values linked to natural ecosystems can be particularly significant for indigenous communities, whose livelihoods and cultures are often closely tied to ecological...
Small scale fisheries play an important role in coastal communities as well as macro economy of the country. Value chains of small scale fisheries and the actors were highly vulnerable to climate change effects due to its inherited nature of poor resource status, scale of operation, and imperfect knowledge on...
One method to support a fisheries MCS system that recommended by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is using a Vessel Monitoring System (VMS). The VMS is a tools to analyze movement of fishing vessel. The costs and benefits of VMS investment can be estimated.
The analysis of the Indonesian...
The production and distribution of fish products in Vietnam have been faced with strict consumer requirements such as seafood quality, hygiene, safety standards, traceability, environmentally friendly manufacturing and fisheries resource conservation. These are compulsory requirements for sustainable business development in international markets. The research applies the Structure Conduct Performance (SCP)...
The production and distribution of fish products in Vietnam have been faced with strict consumer requirements such as seafood quality, hygiene, safety standards, traceability, environmentally friendly manufacturing and fisheries resource conservation. These are compulsory requirements for sustainable business development in international markets. The research applies the Structure – Conduct –...
Growing industrial and consumer demands are negatively affecting fish stocks, which are extracted above sustainable levels. Successful conservation of marine resources through restricted-use zoning systems such as marine reserves and territorial user rights schemes relies on support from marine stakeholders – particularly coastal fishing communities. Restricted use zoning will result...
Indonesia, with a coastline of over 95,000 KM and brackish water area of 1.2 million hactares has very vast fisheries potential. In 2013, Indonesia exported seafood worth 4.16 billion US$. The major markets for Indonesian fisheries are USA, EU, Canada, Japan and China. Indonesian fisheries producers and processors take care...
In this paper, we discuss the solution for the shortage of labor supply in the fishing industry by comparing three countries/region in the East Asia; Japan, Taiwan and Korea. Fishery is a so-called 3D (Dirty, Dangerous and Difficult) industry as it requires hard work on the ocean often through the...
The study compared fresh fish and smoked fish marketing in Adamawa state. Primary data were collected with the aid of well-structured questionnaires from marketers in 13 major fish markets in seven local government area of Adamawa state. Findings from the study revealed that majority of the fish sellers were female...
Remote regions in developing countries have often not shared in the increase in income and quality of life associated with economic growth in the industrial and service sectors. This is particularly true in countries with a rapidly developing economy and middle class, such as Brazil. Remote regions remained trapped in...
The main instrument used in fishery management is the total allowable catch (TAC). Fishery management often fails because TACs are set too high and do not sufficiently restrict fisheries. The question we address in this paper is why do decision makers choose inefficiently high TACs? Our approach is to model...
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This power point presentation was given to Northwest Fisheries Managers in November of 2013 during a conference at Oregon State University.
This presentation was presented as part of a lighting talk session at the Northwest Archivists conference in Spokane, WA, in May 2014. It was also presented at the August 2014 Society of American Archivists conference in Washington D.C. at the Performing Arts Roundtable meeting.
Coastal and marine spatial planning (CMSP) is a process for improving the management of ocean resources in order to promote their sustainable development. One of the most challenging spatial planning issues in New England now concerns the siting of offshore renewable energy facilities, mainly wind farms. Commercial fishermen are among...
Endophytes are bacteria or fungi that live within a host plant. The plant host provides a home for endophytes, and in return endophytes produce primary and secondary metabolites, of which many of the secondary metabolites possess biological activities. When microorganisms are grown under various media conditions, they produce different natural...
Excess capacity and overexploitation are the main problems for the sustainability of marine fisheries around the world. This study estimates the capacity utilization, excess capacity and factors affecting capacity utilization of the multispecies gill-net boats operating in the Bay of Bengal using cross-sectional primary data collected from the two main...
Overcapacity remains a major issue in world fisheries. The specific conditions that give rise to overcapacity in the pure open access fishery remain unclear, however the non‑malleability of capital is widely regarded as a necessary condition for the accumulation of excess harvesting capacity. In the process of fisheries collapse known...
Consumer-facing traceability systems are emerging in the global seafood sector as a way for companies to reduce their reputational risk, access certain markets, and to generally communicate production practices to downstream actors. What are the characteristics of these systems, what benefits do they bring to different value chain actors, and...
As part of the ecosystem approach to managing fisheries and other uses of marine ecosystems, there has been a growing call for the development of integrated assessment tools to support the provision of both tactical and strategic management advice. Of particular importance in this domain is the development of models...
The Philippines is surrounded with many fishing grounds. In spite of this, most fishermen in the area live in poverty, and their plight is getting worse, not better. Current fisheries policies for the area have failed to improve the situation but no research has been done to find out why....
In Bangladesh, women constitute about 50% of the population but comprise only one-fourth of the labor force. Considering women's critical roles in fisheries sector many projects in Bangladesh address both men and women as target groups putting more emphasis on women groups. One such project is "Emergency cyclone Recovery and...
Use of indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) is critically important in production systems and environmental management in Nigeria. Despite the importance of fisheries to Nigeria’s economy and the indispensable role of IKS in it, IKS used in fishing households have not been adequately researched. This study identified and examined the utilization...
The main objective of this study was to describe the marine artisanal fishery in Tanzania mainland by manipulating data from frame and catch assessment surveys from 1984 -2011. Results showed that catches have been fairly stable while fishing effort has been increasing leading to decline in CPUE. This could be...
Despite the efforts of natural resource economists to implement rights-based fishery management systems, many of the world’s fisheries remain over-exploited and lack an institution to change course. Given the status quo of overharvesting and depleted fish stocks, it seems natural for a harvester co-op to jointly curtail fishing mortality, which...
The North American host of the introduced Asian isopod parasite, Orthione griffenis, is the burrowing Blue Mud Shrimp, Upogebia pugettensis. The shrimp are the predominant species in the Yaquina Bay estuary intertidal mudflats, and are essential ecosystem engineers. The parasite effectively castrates the shrimp host without causing mortality which allows...
Ecosystem services (ES) provide a pathway to connect ecosystem processes to human well-being. Ecosystem-based fisheries management can utilize the ecosystem service framework to assess trade-offs of actions such as restoration and gear restrictions, or environmental changes such as ocean acidification and warming, and sea level rise. However, due to a...
Balancing the goals of economic development and sustaining ecosystem services remains a challenge for policymakers, particularly in the marine environment where ecosystem dynamics and human interactions are both complex and poorly understood. Implementing environmental management policies, such as environmental restoration, is a common response by policymakers where economic and environmental...
Analyzing the socioeconomic impacts of fisheries management requires a distinctive array of information that has so far been less developed than the biological data used in stock assessment. In the case of the European Common Fisheries Policy the project SOCIOEC studies the socioeconomic effects of the new European fisheries management...
Analyzing the socioeconomic impacts of fisheries management requires a distinctive array of information that has so far been less developed than the biological data used in stock assessment. In the case of the European Common Fisheries Policy the project SOCIOEC studies the socioeconomic effects of the new European fisheries management...
If the spatial and temporal distribution of resources is not homogenous it creates an assignment problem. While the adoption of individual (or transferable) quota management in many commercial fisheries has resolved issues of over-appropriation, assignment problems may remain due to the spatial and temporal complexity of fisheries resources, which creates...
Many experts have argued that the traditional management of commercial fish stocks as single-species is short-sighted, wasteful, and ineffective. Ecosystem-based fisheries management (EBFM) now is being promoted as a potential solution to the problem. While much attention has been directed recently at the potential benefits of implementing EBFM for commercial...
"The need to articulate new ways to manage and utilize marine and fisheries resources has become apparent. The paper outlines the critical importance of managing marine resources for small islands countries of the Pacific and focuses on the role that women can play towards achieving sustainable fisheries.
The paper looks...
Ecolabelling has become an essential component of the global sustainable seafood trade. The MSC is currently the world leader in certification and ecolabelling programs for wild capture fisheries. While the environmental benefits of certification have been widely recognised, its economic benefits are often anecdotal or unknown. The South African hake...
Cisplatin (CDDP) is a highly active platinum-containing chemotherapeutic agent for use against solid tumors, including ovarian. However, like most antitumor agents, CDDP use is accompanied by non-tumor tissue toxicities leading to unwanted side effects, including neuropathy. To date, the mechanism(s) for these side effects are undefined. However, the clinical features...
Pantar Island's coastal communities like many other coastal communities in eastern Indonesia have a high dependency on marine resources for income, food security and other benefits. Fish products (comprising several species of demersal and pelagic species) are particularly valuable (in addition to other products harvested and traded for export markets)...
Self-management has been recognized as important in successfully governing the common pool resources. This is no exception in fishery. Fishery cooperatives, where fishermen collectively manage the fishery, are garnering much attention from both regulators and academics. In this study, we aim to empirically disentangle the efficiency mechanism of pooling system....
In an open fishery, the competition for the limited fish stock can lead fishermen to a ``race for fish" with sub-optimally high capital investments. Buyback programs to reduce excess capacity in national fisheries have been often used, but seldom successful. Where they have successfully reduced excess capacity, the programs have...
Australian governments spend millions of dollars each year on pre-border, border and post-border biosecurity programs. The majority of these programs are resourced through existing deeds of agreement, but some currently fall outside of these funding frameworks. Frameworks not based on economic principles have the potential to deliver sub-optimal outcomes with...
Western Australian (WA) fisheries have a long association with environmental certification- the WA rock lobster fishery (in 2000) was the first fishery certified under the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) standards.In 2012 the Western Australia Minister of Fisheries announced that the State Government had committed $14.6 million across a four-year period...
The Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) has been one of the most abundant fish in the California Current Ecosystem (CCE) since the late 1990s. In recent years under a warm regimen, large Pacific sardine reached Canadian waters in mid-June and returned to the spawning ground in Southern California during October. The...